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could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...